and there is more strategy be-hind it,” Stuckman said.

Since the end of this past year, Stuckman’s game received high reviews on the iTunes store from anonymous reviewers giving her constructive insight and praises on the word game.

“Spellatorium is professional, it’s polished, it’s innovative and

the artwork is gorgeous and evocative. Most importantly though, it makes you think in a new way, which is the mark of a great puzzle game,” Djflippy, a game reviewer said.

Being a creative, intelligent innovator at such a young age

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Students face challenges with each new semester

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Freshman year can be characterized by un-certainty and adjustment. The transition from high school to college is difficult for many students academically.

“My biggest challenge was studying and not being a procrastinator, because I never re-ally studied in high school,” said Tess Earley, freshman education major. “I studied more my first semester of college than I ever have.”

In addition to handling an increased work-load, freshmen must live on their own for the first time. With no curfew and no parents pushing them to attend class, students have to take responsibility for their education. This

change can be difficult for some students, making freshman year one of the most chal-lenging.

Sophomore year is when students begin to build confidence. By this point, most have joined organizations and built friendships. With a year under their belts, sophomores have the experience to begin leadership roles on campus.

“The biggest change [from freshman to sophomore year] is that you already know your way around and have a group of friends

Freshman and sophomore year I wasn’t too worried about fi guring out my life, but once junior year hit I realized I needed to stop playing around and get serious with where my life, and college for that matter, was going.”

Moriah Banas, junior

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Aggie creates popular

iPhone application

Many college students spend free time practicing ordinary hobbies such as playing rec-reational sports, studying and watching reality television. Sophomore electrical and com-puter engineering major Kate Stuckman, however, defies the stereotypical college student’s hobbies by developing a iPod and iPad application, Professor Wordington’s Spellatorium.

“My dad and I have been playing this game since I was five years old and you alternate turns trying to spell a word without finishing the word,” Stuckman said.

After taking three years of computer science in high school and starting the summer

before her freshman year at Texas A&M University, Stuck-man started designing the game as a hobby, challenging herself to create something that she cared about.

“I always thought it was fun and I was just hoping other people would like it, too,” Stuckman said.

Based on the game she and her father would casually play in the car, the objective of Stuckman’s game is to alter-nate adding a letter to a word against your opponent to spell a longer word, while at the same time trying to avoid being the last player to add the final letter of the word.

“Even people who say they do not like word games will play it, because it is different

Alex LotzSpecial to The Battalion

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Sophomore electrical and computer engineering major develops word game available on iTunes.

See Mindset on page 10

See iPhone on page 4

Greek Life shapes upGreek Life was put on a pause in early November after a Texas A&M fraternity member reportedly shot a pet goat. A weeklong moratorium, issued by Ann Goodman, Greek Life director, on social activities for Greek Life began after fi ve different negative reports. Texas A&M has thousands of students in Greek Life that were required at a mandatory meeting in Rudder Auditorium on Nov. 18. Since the meeting there have been no reported complaints. Christine Perrenot,

staff writer

campus news

Prairie View hazing death in questionPrairie View A&M student Marvin Jackson, membership chairman for Phi Beta Sigma, wasn’t indicted this past year after the death of a fraternity pledge due to hazing. Donnie Wade II from Dallas had a heart defect that the fraternity claims not to have known about at the time of the initiation. Wade died Oct. 20, 2009, after the pledges participated in exercises before dawn. There was a confession and lack of knowledge on Wade’s existing heart condition, which leads some to question if this is the reasoning behind why the jury did not indict.

Christine Perrenot, staff writer

Danielle Cordes is a nurs-ing student at the Texas A&M Health Science Center who is an Acute Lymphocytic Leuke-mia survivor. Not only did she beat her illness, but she recently ran a half-marathon with the Snowdrop Foundation, a cancer organization dedicated to assist-ing patients and families with childhood cancer.

Cordes uses her experience to encourage others, and it allows to relate to patients.

“Danielle is a dedicated and hard working young lady,” said Jackie Costello, assistant profes-sor in the College of Nursing. “She is willing to share her ex-perience so that it may help oth-ers. I believe her illness as a child and the many hospital visits she endured lead her to nursing.”

Cordes has a passion for children. She dealt with many nurses as a child, and this ex-posed her to the experiences of a pediatric nurse.

“Danielle is a natural pediatric nurse, this is most likely because of the many nurses who took care of her during her time of need,” Costello said.

Cordes ran the half-marathon with the founder of Snowdrop, Kevin Kline.

“I have always been a runner, but I have never actually run a

Student runs for those who can’t

Haley Lawson The Battalion

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student life

The thought of not being able to speak English while trying to do business with an American sounds impossible. The power of language is undoubtedly ob-vious in today’s world.

Being able to use English as a means of education and global-ization is what professor Rafael Lara-Alecio is trying to achieve with Project EILE, English as a Second or Foreign Language.

Lara-Alecio is working with the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education and the Costa Rica Multilingual Foundation to get students and teachers in-volved in Project EILE. The project tests the efficiency of various software types that are designed to teach English as a second language.

“My role as a researcher is to advance the field of bilingual education in the state and na-tion, as well as internationally,” Lara-Alecio said.

The project has been so influ-ential that the team has received requests from other countries to try the project.

“[Project EILE is] a two year research project sponsored by the Intercontinental Development

Professor advances bilingual education

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faculty

technology

Leukemia survivor participates in half marathon

Project to use English language for globalization

From dazed

T exas A&M is known for its wildcats and traditions that

mark each class year. Underclassmen anticipate the day

they can “whoop,” and the day students receive their rings

marks the day they will be forever recognized as Aggie alumni.

Different challenges mark each year for a student, and each se-

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nation&worldEmanuel thrown off Chicago ballotCHICAGO — Just days ago, Rahm Emanuel seemed to be steamrolling the entire fi eld of candidates for Chicago mayor. He had millions in the bank, a huge lead in the polls and abundant opportunities to show off his infl uence, including a meeting with the visiting Chinese president. But on Monday, the former White House chief of staff was waging a desperate bid to keep his campaign alive after an Illinois appeals court kicked him off the ballot for not meeting a residency requirement. The surprise decision throws the race into disarray with less than a month to go.

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3 Identity theftA workshop will be

from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. today in room 236 of the Pavilion to help students learn how to protect their identity. For more information, call Money Wise Aggie: 845-3236.

1 Coff ee hour

Andrew Kirkendall, associate professor of history, will be on campus from 9 to 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Glasscock

building for coffee, tea, pastries and

conversation.

2 Money management

A Money Wise workshop will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 236 of the Pavilion to teach students the basics of saving and investing.

Practicing for perfection

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Christian Browne, freshman general studies major, and Ray Eby, a sophomore anthropology major, practice Monday for football walk-on tryouts which will be Feb. 2.

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Fla. lawmakers look to Texas for advice TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers are looking to Texas for advice on how to cut prison costs without appearing to be soft on crime. Texas state Rep. Jerry Madden said Monday at a joint meeting of two Florida Senate committees that one way his state saves money on prisons is to put nonviolent offenders on probation or free them on parole. Florida has abolished parole for most crimes.

nation&worldSuspect pleads not guilty in deadly Ariz. shooting PHOENIX — The man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Tucson pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he tried to kill Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two of her aides. The plea by Jared Lee Loughner marked his second court appearance since he allegedly shot the congresswoman and 18 others at Giffords’ meet-and-greet event on Jan. 8 outside a grocery store in Tucson. Six people died, including U.S. District Judge John Roll and a 9-year-old girl. Thirteen others were wounded. Loughner, 22, faces federal charges of trying to assassinate Giffords and attempting to murder two of her aides. He will later face state charges dealing with other victims.

Iowa panel backs putting gay marriage ban to vote DES MOINES, Iowa — A key House committee on Monday approved a resolution that would begin the long process of putting a gay marriage ban before voters. The House Judiciary Committee approved the measure on a 13-8 vote, sending the measure to the full House for debate. Earlier, a subcommittee of that panel voted 2-1 in favor of the resolution. House Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer, R-Garner, says the full House could take up the resolution within a few days, but next week is more likely.Republicans control the House on a 60-40 margin, and top leaders have predicted approval. Senate leaders promise to block the proposal in a chamber where Democrats are clinging to a 26-24 margin.

Giff ords intern to attend State of Union WASHINGTON — An intern who cared for Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head and the family of a 9-year-old girl who was the youngest of six people killed in the same shooting will sit with fi rst lady Michelle Obama for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.

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MOSCOW — Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up Monday in Moscow’s busiest airport and turning its international arrivals terminal into a smoky, blood-spat-tered hall of dismembered bodies, scream-ing survivors and abandoned suitcases. At least 35 people were killed, including two British travelers.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast at Domodedovo Airport that also wounded 180 people, although Islamic militants in the southern Russian region of Chechnya have been blamed for previ-ous attacks in Moscow, including a dou-ble suicide bombing on the capital’s sub-way system in March 2010 that resulted in 40 deaths.

The Interfax news agency said the head of the suspected bomber had been found.

President Dmitry Medvedev called it a terrorist attack and immediately tightened

security at Moscow’s two other commer-cial airports and other key transportation facilities.

It was the second time in seven years that Domodedovo was involved in a ter-rorist attack: In 2004, two female suicide bombers penetrated the lax security there, illegally bought tickets from airport per-sonnel and boarded planes that exploded in flight and killed 90 people.

Medvedev canceled plans to travel Tuesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he aimed to promote Russia as a profitable investment haven to world business leaders.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered the health minister to send her deputies to hospitals to make sure the injured were getting the medical care they needed.

Russians still look to the tough-talking Putin as the leader they trust to guarantee their security, and Monday’s attack was likely to strengthen the position of the security forces that form part of his base.

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A wounded blast victim is brought by rescuers to a hospital from Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Monday. A suicide bomber set off an explosion in Moscow’s busiest airport.

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1 Cooking on a

budgetMoney Wise Aggies will have an information session on how to budget to spend less on food from 1:50 to 2:50 p.m. Wednesday in the Pavilion, room 236.

3 Love and money

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“No Strings Attached” satisfies as a feel-good

romantic comedy

Rom-com season starts

I f every type of movie has its season, then

summer is marked by the dialogue and

acting light, action blockbusters whose

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explosions, car chases and Megan Fox.

Fall is highlighted by intellectual crime dramas and never ending sci-fi trilogies, where as the winter and holiday season is when the best-of-the-best are released; family films that make serious bank and indie media darlings that wont make any money at the box of-fice, but might garner everyone involved a new career jolt with more fame, fortune and success, if they can take home that little gold Oscar statue that has be-come a way to mark relevancy in the industry.

So, with award season in full swing and Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we now enter into a time of fluffy, montage filled romantic comedies based in Manhattan or L.A. starring the prettiest people on the planet; a.k.a. chick flick season.

Director Ivan Reitman’s No Strings Attached is the leadoff hitter for 2011, coming in strong this weekend with a No. 1 opening at a solid $20.3 million in box office receipts with women making up 70 percent of the audience. This is the first No. 1 opening for Ashton Kutcher as a main character in almost six years.

Kutcher’s romantic lead, Natalie Portman, is coming off her most impressive role to date - the tripped out, para-noid and psychotic ballerina Nina Sayers. Aside from her awkward acceptance speech af-ter winning the Golden Globe for best actress for her role in

Black Swan a few weeks ago, Portman has gone through award season unde-feated and looks to be the frontrunner for next month’s Oscar race.

After such a winning perfor-mance from an ac-tor, it always begs the question “what will she do next?” Portman comes out

unexpectedly with No Strings Attached to answer this, helping also to produce the film in a genre she has barley dipped into and really only effectively done so in 2004’s indie favor-ite Garden State.

In No Strings Attached, Portman takes on the role of Emma, an emotionally distant doctor who’s not a fan of hugging, cuddling or deep conversations. Sound like any or every guy you know? She works 80 hour weeks and has a self proclaimed peanut-like allergy to communication and relationships.

Kutcher’s character Adam on the other hand is happy, charming, easy-going, sensitive and loyal; basically a loveable puppy, just like every other role of Kutcher’s career. Adam works as a struggling assistant writer on an overproduced “Glee” esque after school special that no self respecting artist would ever voluntarily be a part of. His famous actor fa-ther, Alvin (Kevin Kline), had a hit TV show back in the day and is still reaping the benefits of his success, most notably by beginning to date his own

Alexandra

Welch

junior business major

son’s hot, vapid and way too young ex-girlfriend.

When Adam walks in on this new, disturbing devel-opment in his father’s love life, he goes into a drunken montage tailspin, vowing to call every girl in his phone until one agrees to sleep with him. And so, as happens, the next morning he wakes up naked on Emma’s couch hav-ing absolutely no clue how he got there or came to be in his natural state.

The weakest point of the film comes in the meeting of Adam and Emma, as it is clumsily explained to the viewer that the two went to camp together 15 years previ-ously, then some how rec-ognized one another at a frat party in college, post puberty, in a different part of the coun-

try, only to again run into each other four years after that at an outdoor L.A. market. But even with these chance rendezvous, Adam still ends up on Emma’s couch and 10 minutes later in her bed.

The two decide to begin a “sex friends” relationship, per Emma’s suggestion. Though Adam is clearly smitten with the girl and would like something more; he can’t turn down angst and relationship free sex with a hot and willing female. And so, the two set out to have a physical only “relationship,” and just go and go and go until one of them shows signs of attachment.

But, alas, as many of us know, friends-with-benefits without feeling is impossible; one of the main separations and graces between human and

animal. The breakdown ensues when the two awaken to find they had been spooning … fully clothed; the true sign of something more.

Emma declares the two need to start hooking up with other people. The funniest part of the movie ensues with Portman playing possibly the most adorable jealous drunk ever to hit the big screen, when Emma realizes the idea was a huge mistake, and that she and Adam might have been meant to be.

Portman carries the film, but to Kutcher’s credit he was really only given a shell of a male stock character and not the opportunity to deliver good lines, where as the role of Emma was the only fully developed one in the movie. Kutcher does the best he can

with what Elizabeth Meri-

wether’s script gives him, and

comes off as charming and

likeable as ever. And while it

may seem like a step back for

Portman, the genre seems fresh

with her finally involved and

that alone helps the plot along.

No Strings Attached is

nothing new, and is heavily

watered down for an R rated

comedy with no graphic sex

romps or jokes that the like of

Forgetting Sarah Marshall and

Knocked Up get away with at

that MPAA rating. The film

boils down to a sitcom with

foul language, but when taken

at face value for what it is, a

romantic feel good comedy,

which is all No Strings Attached

is trying to be, it delivers as a

great date movie for this love-

is-in-the-air season.

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has given Stuckman the noticeable pas-sion she has for her major. Stuckman is a young woman succeeding in her electri-cal and computer engineering major. She adds diversity to the major by joining the Society of Women Engineers, playing the oboe in the Texas A&M concert band and volunteering as a camp counselor at an outreach for the Society of Engineers. With all of her credentials, Stuckman has a train of followers.

“There was never really anyone who wasn’t supportive. The game company really supported our ideas, because I put a lot of work into it,” Stuckman said.

From the beginning of the entire pro-

cess, family friend Colleen Regester has given Stuckman praise and guidance as she developed the game and is even an avid fan of the game herself.

“I was amazed, mostly with the arti-ficial intelligence required for the game to be fun, but I was also still impressed with the graphics and the music; really the whole package,” Regester said.

When asked about whether or not she plans on developing more applications, Stuckman insists that she is unsure about her future in the game development indus-try, but she said she enjoyed the entire pro-cess and working with professionals who respect her ideas.

“One of my secret fantasies is that I will be sitting in class before it starts and I will look over at someone I don’t know playing my game,” Stuckman said.

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Little did he know he was destined to receive a myriad of awards including All-Amer-ican laurels and gold medals in a sport that would eventu-ally, after a simple stroke of pure chance, transform into his greatest passion.

Originally a gymnast, Nel suffered a hand injury that

would prevent him from com-peting at his highest level for some time. His competitive nature, however, wouldn’t let him stand idle and after a brief resting period, he began experimenting in what would prove to be a life-changing endeavor — trying his luck in the precise art of diving. Nel, a decent gymnast in his own right, found he had a surpris-ingly tremendous upside in his newest gig, thanks in part to his gymnastics background, and fell in love immediately.

At the age of 13, Nel and his family moved to Australia where he hit the ground run-ning. Now, fully committed to his newest pursuit, Nel joined one of the most renowned div-ing academies in Australia, the Melbourne Elite Diving Acad-emy, where he could refine his skills even further. Nel, then emerging as one of Australia’s best young divers, would soon

catch the attention of several college scouts, including for-mer Texas A&Am diving coach Kevin Wright.

It was purely by coinci-dence that Wright was able to recruit Nel, Cam McLean and Jamie Potvin, all of whom now dive for A&M, at the ex-act same Canadian meet. Nel and McLean, who had become best friends prior to their re-cruitment, couldn’t believe what had happened.

“One of the funny parts about [the recruiting process] was when I was competing for Australia, I met Cam McLean in Brazil and both of us had be-come best friends since,” Nel said. “We kind of joked around about how cool it would be if we both went to the same university … and literally one year later [on the same day we discussed going to college to-gether] we were here in Col-lege Station.”

As an Aggie, Nel has im-pressed from the day he stepped foot on campus onward. As a freshman, he earned All-Amer-ica honors after placing fourth in the 3-meter springboard at the NCAA championships and won gold at the Australian Open in the 3-meter synchro-nized diving event.

His sophomore year was no different as he was rewarded the prestigious honor of Most Outstanding Diver in the Big 12 Championship after which he received All-American rec-ognition in three events at the proceeding NCAA meet.

This year could end up be-ing his greatest yet. Nel is still undefeated in all of his div-ing matchups this season and

toppled Texas All-American diver Drew Livingston in the “Southwest Plunge” at the start of the fall.

More recently, however, Nel broke the school record for the 3-meter springboard event with a total score of 453 after successfully executing a four-and-a-half somersault, one of the most difficult dives in the diving repertoire. Even more impressive is the fact that it was the first time he had ever at-tempted the daunting dive in live competition.

“The front four-and-a-half somersault has [a very high difficulty] and not many do

it although they are starting to [more often] because the higher the difficulty, obvi-ously the more points you can score,” Nel said. “Scoring 93 points is the highest I’ve ever done on a dive and it was a pretty proud moment.”

Shortly thereafter, Nel ventured back to Australia to compete in the “Com-monwealth Games,” an in-ternational meet, where he won first place in the 3-me-ter springboard. Needless to say, he’s proven he compete with anyone.

When asked what his goals are for the rest of the season,

Nel was very clear.

“I want to achieve an NCAA

title if not more,” he said.

“With the backing I have here,

I have no excuses. I think it’s

very achievable.”

Current A&M diving coach

Jay Lerew knows Nel’s poten-

tial. Lerew, who coached the

U.S.A in the 2000 Summer

Olympic Games, also knows

what it’ll take to win it all.

“He’s got the ability to do it

all [win the NCAA Champion-

ship] if he works hard enough,”

Lerew said. “If he’s on, he can

do it. If he dives as well as he

can, he’s got a shot.”

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Photos by Paul Mezier — THE BATTALION

Junior diver Grant Nel comes to A&M after being scouted by former coach Kevin Wright. In his three years in Aggieland, Nel holds All-America accolades, A&M records and is looking for an NCAA title.

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As a kid living in

South Africa,

diving wasn’t

even on the mind of

junior Aggie diver

Grant Nel — now

known as one of the

greatest divers to have

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Drive far enough south on Wellborn Road and one might encounter the small commu-nity of Wellborn. Wellborn, a community known for its rural charm, has been in existence even before the time of Col-lege Station.

Wellborn is on the fringe of the College Station city limits, and stands directly in the path of its growth. Now a bitter feud has broken out between citi-zens’ groups fighting to incor-porate Wellborn into College Station city limits and make it into its own self-governing community.

Jane Cohen, a member of the group Citizens for Well-born, has been involved in the process of petitioning the Col-lege Station City Council to vote for incorporation.

“Back in the ’60s, the ex-traterritorial jurisdiction, ETJ, laws were made by Texas to keep new communities from forming and stopping growth of

already established cities. Well, Wellborn is not new,” Cohen said.

As Wellborn exists right now, it is in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of College Station, which would allow the College Station to annex the commu-nity of Wellborn, effectively extending its municipal servic-es, voting privileges and taxing authority over it.

“As of right now, there is no zoning authority, no county or state authority over Wellborn. We are trying to preserve this special rural area, but we need to have zoning to protect it,” said Lance Simms, assistant di-rector of planning and devel-opment services for the city of College Station.

Simms said the proposed city limits for an incorporated Well-born would make it difficult for the College Station to grow around it in the future. Sewage lines, streets and development would be interrupted.

“What they’re proposing, I think, most will say looks gerry-mandered. Imagine if someone

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said, ‘Hey, we want to incor-porate a four-mile-block right on your border that would will have to grow around.’”

Wellborn needs the city’s permission to incorporate be-cause it is in College Station’s ETJ. At the rate College Station is growing, at approximately 3 percent every year, the city has started plans for annexation rather than incorporation.

After a series of petitions from College Station citizens requesting the chance to vote for incorporation, Cohen said they filed public records re-quests from the city on Sept. 22 and Dec. 20 of last year.

“Mayor Berry told council members not to reply to my e-mails about the petitions be-cause they were going to talk

about it in a self-evaluation meeting. So we requested pub-lic records of the self-evalua-tion. We never got anything,” Cohen said.

Jay Socol, director of public communications for College Station, said the city filled the request by providing more than 300 pages of documents.

“Mrs. Cohen felt like some items were missing. But instead of contacting the city with those concerns, she quietly filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s office. Only when contacted by the AG’s Office were we made aware of that situation and some, not all, ad-ditional information was found to be available,” Socol said.

Socol said any records of the self-evaluation Cohen referred

to were protected under law as confidential records.

“Any notations related to the city council’s self-evaluation would have been made dur-

ing executive session, which is not information that would be released. The AG’s Office is squarely in support of the city in this regard.”

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A feud has broken out between citizens’ groups fighting to incorporate Wellborn into College Station city limits and make it into its own community.

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It was a season of revenge for the Aggie men’s club soccer team. Texas A&M avenged the previous year’s knock-out loss to defending National Champi-on Weber State, but ultimately fell at the hands of University of Missouri in the Sweet 16, a team they had beaten in the re-gional tournament.

The Aggies stormed through the 2010 season, winning the-first nine games before falling to the Texas Longhorns in Austin. During that nine game stretch, A&M outscored the opponents 31-4, with the smallest margin of victory at two goals.

Defense was a key factor for the team’s success. The Aggies posted six shutouts during the 10 game regular season, three out of four games during the regional tournament, and back-to-back shutouts in the national tournament. Nick Amy, a ju-nior agricultural economics major, was part of the back four that consistently stopped opponents from scoring. He attributed much of the defen-sive success to cohesion.

“Our ability to communi-cate with each other, even from week one [contributed to our success]. We all knew what kind of player each other was, so we could make up for each other’s mistakes,” Amy said.

After tying the opening game in the regional tourna-ment against Lamar Univer-sity, the Aggies cruised past Lone Star College-Kingwood, Texas State and Missouri to clinch a spot in the national tournament. Up next was We-ber State, a school the Aggies looked forward to seeking re-venge on after losing to them

in the eighth round of penalty kicks last year.

Senior central midfielder Ryne Heath recalled the moti-vation the team had in prepar-ing for the rematch.

“Our hard work had gone into playing that team. Our mentality was, ‘We’re going to be better than we were last year. We’re going to beat that kind of a team,’” Heath said.

As a result, A&M shut down defending champion Weber State 2-0, knocking them out of the tournament. Oliver Mu-lamba, a graduate student who led the team in goals, noticed how the team prepared for this critical match.

“We were pretty motivated for it,” Mulamba said. “The guys wanted it, and we made it happen. We worked harder, even when we were leading.”

Freshman midfielder Reagan Haisler also attributes the win to focus and calmness.

“Everyone was really focused [and] we had a good warm up. It was just business when they blew the starting whistle,” Haisler said.

After dispatching Colorado School of the Mines, Missouri stood between A&M and an-other Elite 8 appearance. The Aggies beat the Tigers in the previous game 2-0, but found themselves unable to find the net in regulation, resulting in a scoreless draw. Missouri made the most of the overtime by knocking in a sudden-death goal, and with that, A&M’s season was over.

“It was shocking. It was heartbreaking. We knew we had beaten them before, and we should have beaten them again,” Mulamba said.

A&M’s season ended sooner

than expected, but the soccer team still enjoyed another suc-cessful season in the midst of stellar competition. Three Big 12 schools made the nation’s Final Four: Texas, Missouri and national champion University of Colorado.

What were some of the factors that contributed to A&M’s success?

“We have really good team chemistry. The returning play-ers were strong, and we also had good players come in this year,” Haisler said.

Mulamba also observed that his teammates aren’t here on scholarship, and are here “be-cause they love the game … and they’ve got a passion for it.”

Many of the team’s players emphasized what differentiates soccer from other sports.

“It’s a mental game. It’s a fit-ness game. It’s not just all about who’s the biggest and who’s the strongest,” Haisler said.

“There are no time-outs, no playbooks, [and] it’s demand-ing” Mulamba said.

For those students wishing to get in on the action, A&M will have its annual 3-on-3 outdoor soccer tournament, which is open to any student who wishes to play. Details will soon be an-nounced.

“People that watch the game of soccer watch it for 90 min-utes. They love it because it’s an art. It is a beautiful game,” Heath said. “People that hate it don’t understand it.”

JT SampsonSpecial to The Battalion

Team chemistry sparks improvementMen’s soccer team scores lots of wins

Courtesy photo

club sports

Striker Oliver Mulamba shoves off the defender from Mizzou.

More information◗ For more information about the Texas A&M men’s club soccer team, visit http://msoccer.tamu.edu/.

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Bank, the Costa Rica Multilin-gual Foundation, the Costa Rica and United States Foundation, Centro Cultural Costarricence, the Ministry of Education in Costa Rica, Texas A&M Uni-versity and Sam Houston State University,” Lara-Alecio said.

Enrika Olivarez and Anna-belle Nelson, both senior bilin-gual education majors from the Undergraduate Research Schol-ars program, help with the proj-ect. They administer tests, trans-late and organize test results. They give surveys to children, parents, principals and teachers to determine who already speaks English and how the environ-ment influences their level of education. The girls have never encountered someone who had a problem participating in the survey and think that people are very open to the idea.

“The main purpose of the research is to examine at the el-ementary and secondary levels the extent to which technology can impact the acquisition of English among Spanish-speak-ing students. This particular type of project has not been evaluated experimentally in any Latin American country,” Lara-Alecio said.

Olivarez said that the experi-ence working with Project EILE has been great so far.

“We have workshops on how to do research like a master’s stu-dent would do,” she said. “We learn how to have successful software interventions and help children speak English with the project,”

The project shows the ef-fectiveness of learning English to promote globalization and how valuable the commodity of knowing English is for business.

“English is the ‘language of globalization,’” Nelson said.

Technology is a huge factor in the Costa Rica project. The World Trade Bank donated laptops for the children of rural schools in Costa Rica to use. This is valuable due to the fact that researchers can test which kind of software is best to use to learn English, and help develop research data faster. Many kids don’t have a computer at home so this opens the children’s minds to the language of tech-nology as well.

“There is a great importance and need to not only conduct research in Texas or the United States, but internationally in sec-ond language acquisition. Re-search should never be just for research sake; rather, it should always be conducted in applied settings to improve the educa-tion of second language learners with information based in sci-entific research designs,” Lara-Alecio said,

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half marathon before. I called Kevin to see if I could run with him on his half marathon, and he of course said yes,” Cordes said.

Kline uses half marathons to represent the life of a cancer pa-tient. His goal is to show how children suffer from cancer daily.

“He ran for 24 hours on a treadmill and then ran a half marathon from Sugar Land to the steps of Texas Children’s Hospital in the Medical Cen-ter,” Cordes said. “It was unbe-lievable. He said that he wanted to depict somehow the day in the life of a cancer patient, and the half marathon represented the fact that cancer doesn’t just stop at a day. It is something that the children suffered through and it’s day in and day out.”

Kline regularly runs to Texas Children’s Hospital and encour-ages the children who are pa-tients there when he runs by. Cordes joined him on a run to Texas Children’s Hospital and

was moved by the children who joined them as they ran by.

“On Jan. 1, Kevin and I start-ed running from Sugar Land, and we ended at Texas Chil-drens Hospital,” Cordes said. “It was one of the most moti-vational and touching things I have done. At the end, I had tears in my eyes watching all the children who had cancer join in as we ran up to Texas Children’s Hospital.”

The half-marathon was an achievement for Cordes. She said she appreciates the oppor-tunity to run for those who can-not and she will continue to be an inspiration to everyone who meets her.

“I have always wanted to run a half marathon and when Kevin told me about his run, I knew this was something I wanted to do,” Cordes said. “I have not had many complications from the cancer, so I wanted to run this for those who couldn’t. See-ing those kids as we ran in, made everything worthwhile. It was a truly amazing experience.”

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EDITOR’SNOTE

The buyouts coincide with faculty buyouts at t.u. as both universities at-tempt to compensate for state budget cuts. Public state universities absorbed a 5 percent budget cut for the 2010-

11 biennium, and the legislative bud-get board has directed state-supported agencies and institutions to absorb an additional 2.5 percent cut this year. In a University wide e-mail on Dec. 14 President Loftin reacted to the additional cut, saying, “Because we were proac-tive in our planning, the budget reduction actions implemented to slow our spending in the current year, in anticipation of the reductions expected in FY12, have put us in a position to better manage this reduction. I will not be asking our colleges and divisions to make additional cuts, nor will I be asking for across-the-board University-wide staff reductions.” There remains a potential 10 percent cut over the next biennium beginning in the fall.

In the face of a woeful economy and difficult cuts, I admire A&M’s creativity in cost cutting, but I find the aforementioned $15 million in savings a year to be a dubious esti-mate at best.

Antonio Cepeda-Benito, dean of faculties and associate provost at A&M told The Houston Chronicle: “Only faculty who have been ten-ured and at their current rank for at least 15 years were eligible.” This distinction targets older faculty members who, while higher-paid, are also closer to retire-ment. This begs the question, “for how many years are we saving $15 million?”

In a Dec. 17 piece in The Houston Chronicle, Doug Slack, a professor of wildlife and fisheries sciences, said he planned to retire at the end of 2011. Now he will leave in August

and receive a year’s pay. By my calculation, that is an extra 75 percent of a year’s salary not to teach.

On Jan. 3 The Houston Chronicle reported Thomas Woodfin, an associate profes-sor of landscape architecture and urban planning, had been entertaining an offer from the University of Okla-homa. He will be receiving checks from A&M and the

University of Oklahoma as he opens the semester as the Director of land-scape architecture at Oklahoma.

These observations are not meant to impugn the professors who diligently served us at A&M and by all means made the right choice under the cir-cumstances. The point is the buyout seems inherently flawed by lack of foresight. Buying out teachers who are likely to leave payroll soon anyway makes it hard to believe $15 million is being saved any year much less mul-tiple years.

Furthermore, the $15 million figure doesn’t appear to factor in the addi-tional hiring that will occur to replace these teachers who will cost money. Surely many of these will be adjunct instructors and in some cases gradu-ate students taking a larger role in the classroom. This structural shift toward lecturers who teach more classes al-lows the University to employ fewer

professors without increasing class sizes while saving money. If this was the in-tent of the buyout, it would have been better served by encouraging younger tenured professors to restructure their contracts and allow the senior tenure track professors to fall off the payroll by attrition.

With the increasing need to cut spending here at A&M I am glad that we are being creative and proactive in addressing the budget. I do worry that this buyout is more smoke and mirrors than cost savings, and more disturbingly, it is an attempt to dodge many of the difficult decisions we need to make. As we face a 10 percent reduction in the next two years I hope we can stop gimmicky cuts and inef-ficient across-the-board cuts and target departments that fill little demand and provide little value. I’ll start. Get rid of the Department of Theater Arts.

During the

break Texas

A&M Uni-

versity officials

announced the buyouts

of 104 tenured faculty

members. In exchange for

leaving their positions, the

faculty members will re-

ceive nine to 18 months

compensation in a move

the University expects will

save more than $15 million

a year.

Buying out teachers who are likely to leave payroll soon anyway makes it hard to believe $15 million is being saved any year much less multiple years.

Taylor Wolken junior economics

major

From Justin Thompson, senior aerospace engineering major I take offense to Mr. Luu’s ludicrous statement that it is somehow racist that Aggies were less enthusiastic about Dr. Davis’ visit than former Vice President Cheney’s. The difference in attitudes is due more to their espoused beliefs than their race. Dr. Davis promotes ideas that few Americans are comfortable with; she is a communist (she was the American Communist Party’s VP candidate in 1980), a supporter of racial warfare (Black Panthers), and, as mentioned in The Battalion article Monday, a supporter of eliminating all prisons, which would release thousands of violent offenders. These views are extreme, to say the least, and, frankly, anti-American. Communism is one of the most destructive and evil ideologies ever conceived by man; is it racist to be less than ecstatic to welcome a known proponent of that system? To further discredit the charge, A&M was thrilled to have President Obama and one of his supporters, General Colin Powell, speak on campus. In fact, they were treated better than former Vice President Cheney; no one interrupted their speeches. Even Dr. Davis was able to speak without interruption. This is hardly indicative of racism; actually, Mr. Luu’s insulting statement shows more of a race-based world view than Aggies’ supposedly cool reception of Dr. Davis. Mr. Luu and those who agree with him need to open their eyes and see beyond skin color.

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so you get to be in a position to help those who aren’t as famil-iar and be a leader,” said Am-ber Cassady, sophomore com-munication major. “You begin to feel more independent and take ownership of your place on campus.”

However, it is also the year when important decisions need to be made. Classes become harder, and the students decide which major to pursue.

Junior year is when the pres-sure to plan out your future begins. Students are set in their major, and making the final de-cisions on a minor.

“The toughest year of college is junior year because you begin to take more classes for your ma-jor, and they are more difficult,” said Brittani Kelly, senior sport management major.

Junior year can be stirring as students realize they are over halfway finished with their un-dergraduate degree.

“The biggest challenge and change for me was figuring out what I am going to do with my life,” said Moriah Banas, junior communication major. “Fresh-man and sophomore year I

wasn’t too worried about figur-

ing out my life but once junior

year hit I realized I needed to

stop playing around and get seri-

ous with where my life, and col-

lege for that matter, was going.”

The senior year of college

is exciting and terrifying. Ag-

gie traditions such as Elephant

Walk, Boot Line, ring dunk and

Ring Dance make senior year

unforgettable. However, all

these traditions mark the years

of being an Aggie student com-

ing to an end. It is during senior

year that Aggies can look back

and see how much they have

changed since they first stepped

on campus as a freshman.

“The biggest challenge of be-

ing a senior is realizing that col-

lege is over, and the fear of not

being ready for the real world,”

Kelly said.

With each year students

progress through A&M, a ma-

turing process happens. Aggie

students transform from over-

whelmed freshmen to proud

owners of Aggie rings, ready to

take on the real world.

“The thing that changes the

most from being a freshman to

a senior is you figure out more

of who you really are and the

person you want to be in the

future,” Kelly said.

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House GOP leader says no federal bailout of states WASHINGTON — A top House Republican said Monday that the federal government will not bail out fi scally ailing states and said he opposes a proposal that Congress allow states to declare bankruptcy as a way of handling their growing piles of debt. Though there has been little discussion of Washington bailing out states, some congressional Republicans and conservative groups are suggesting that states be allowed to seek protection in federal bankruptcy court, which they are currently barred from doing. Public employee unions, liberal groups and some lawmakers of both parties oppose the bankruptcy idea. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told reporters Monday that he believes states already have the tools they need to ease crushing budget defi cits since they can cut spending, raise taxes and pressure public employee unions to renegotiate their contracts and pension benefi ts. As a result, he said, he opposes letting states declare bankruptcy because he said they don’t need that power.

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